Mother Earth

English

Proper noun

Mother Earth

1. The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother.
2. (religion) The goddess of the earth in various cultures. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (personification): Earth; Gaia, Gaea; Terra
• (goddess of the earth): Gaia, Gaea, Ge, Rhea, Demeter (Greek); Terra, Tellus (Roman); Earth Mother (neopagan)

Related terms

• Mother Nature

Translations

personification of Earth

• Apache:

  Western Apache: nii gúsdzâné

• Danish: Moder Jord
• Dutch: Moeder Aarde f
• Finnish: maaemo
• French: Terre-Mère f
• Galician: Nai Terra f
• German: Mutter Erde f
• Hindi: पृथ्वी (hi) f (pŕthvī)
• Italian: Madre Terra f

• Japanese: 母地球 (ははちきゅう, haha-chikyū)
• Polish: Matka Ziemia f
• Portuguese: Mãe Terra f
• Russian: Мать-Земля f (Matʹ-Zemlja)
• Sanskrit: पृथ्वी (sa) f (pṛthvī)
• Spanish: Madre Tierra f
• Swedish: Moder Jord c
• Turkish: Doğa Ana, Yertinç Ana

Anagrams

• Earth Mother, earth mother